KEEL OVER DOODS
Saturday, June 16, 2007
10:42 PM
hokay. now, i think everyone (who i've complained to before) should know how bad my brother's logic is. they should also know how bad his chinese is. what happens when you mix logic with chinese?complete and utter chaos.
his logic (let me give an example) is... un-understandable. for example. take the widely known game of dai di. in the midst of explaining to him that the way you play dai di is that one of the biggest rules is the name itself, two is the biggest, my bro comes REAL smartly and tells me.
"so if two's the biggest, then one's the smallest la." *headdesk*
wow. ok, i get his logic. so i try explaining using MY logic.
"no, if two's the biggest then one's the second biggest because it was initially the biggest. if one is bigger than king, and two is bigger than one, then one is second biggest."
"no what, two the biggest then it change place with the one ma."
*slaps forehead*
note: FYI. i spent almost an HOUR explaining that to my brother when we were in (*(delete where applicable
anyways. that's a taste of his logic. now comes the taste of logic and chinese.
explain to me the def. of "teng tiao".
normal person: cane.
my brother: "teng" is pain so 'pain stick' right?
*keels*
and just when i thought my cousins would laugh at him for being so utterly ridiculous, i share this as a joke over tonight's dinner table.
funny as it seems, my cousin looks at me in utter disbelief (like i'm some alien or something) and goes "correct what, pain stick ma."
this cousin, is the same age as my brother, 22, so i don't really blame him since 1. he's been out of touch w chinese for so long 2. his family's mainly eng ed.
and my brother's all smug that someone finally said the same thing as him. "see see, tw also said it's pain stick."
and here comes my younger cousin, who by now i'd have thought she'd know NOT to act smart, who's in p6 -PSLE- (st. nicks btw) and goes JUST as smartly. "ya ya. pain stick ma."
i keel over in laughter.
good thing there's still some sense in my extended family. "really meh?" (hey at least she doubted it!) my other cousin erupts in disbelief. and there goes the explaining part again.
"'teng' is a type of wood!"
"really meh? 'teng' is pain what."
"how many times is it going to take for you to finally understand that one chinese word can mean alot of things?"
"yeah, so 'teng tiao' can be pain stick what."
"that's not how the ancient chinese put it."
"oh, so the ancient chinese wrote wrongly la."
"go check the dictionary, it's a different 'teng'"
and my cousin finally ends it by saying.
"ok la, olden chinese pun la."
K-LOVE
notsoSUNNILY and one of these days when i go berserk,
you better hope that i don't have a knife with me.